Aunt Annie Dismore Teaches Will to Overcome Tempers
In a family parable Aunt Annie recounts her youthful crossness and lack of self-control, then details how a near-tragic cannon accident with her husband Jacob led her to master her will. Forty years later she owns a tranquil marriage, proving virtue forged by effort yields lasting happiness.
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Annie
Rath
Hannah Cleaves
Charles Gray
Susan Adams
Hannah
Susan
Ruth
Annie Dismore
Ruth Gray
Jacob Dismore
Jacob
P Minis
Cleaves
Twain Anecdote From London Banquet Told At Breakfast
Samual L. Clemens recounts a London banquet where guests were seated by numbered plans. The Lord Mayor read names to applause, then Clemens clapped along until his own name Samuel L. Clemens was announced, leaving him speechless and embarrassed.
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Samuel L. Clemens
Mark Twain
Chicago
Mr. Clemens
London
Duke
Great Britain
Terrible Duel Near Lintdale Ends in Fatal Wounds
P H Nicholas and A M Crockett, well to do farmers, fought a savage duel on the road near Lintdale Missouri on the Mississippi. Nicholas was killed after a throat wound and multiple cuts while Crockett survived five hours after eighteen wounds. The dispute began over a trespassing sow and damage to Crockett’s land.
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Memphis
Lintdale
Mississippi River
P. H. Nicholas
A. M. Crockett
Crockett
Nicholas
Centenarian Slave Freed by Baton Rouge Master Remembers Past
Marie Solomon, once enslaved in Baton Rouge, was freed by her master upon turning 100, a freedom granted about a quarter century ago. She died recently in New Orleans after a long life marked by emancipation.
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Marie Solomon
Baton Rouge
New Orleans
Exodists Return from Liberia Gather in New York
The Monrovia bound Azov party from Charleston, D C., arrives in New York with eighteen exodists, most of whom died or suffered in Liberia. They blame mismanagement by the Exodus Association and claim funds for provisions were misused, leaving only three weeks of subsistence and dire conditions upon arrival in Monrovia.
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Liberia
Monrovia
Richardson
New York
Charleston
D. C
South Carolina
Azov Party
America
Bapora
St. Paul
Exodus Association of
South
Azov
Association
Old Si and the Drummers Roar At the Train Shows
The speaker argues that traveling musicians and drum corps disrupt train service and hotel rooms. He claims such performers hinder ads and news, dubbing them clever yet disruptive. The dialogue notes drum players’ charm but laments their impact on commerce and common life.
Ladies Fashion Notes From Ehricka Quarterly
New gray gloves tipped blue and square flat reticules appear. Hand-painted lace, plain velvet cloaks, and colored street wraps return to vogue with undressed kid gloves remaining popular. Bonnets large and small, fiches, and tiger or leopard velvets trim the season. Turc satin and pale fabrics reappear. Coiffures move to classic simplicity. directoire bows, Greek coils, and laces lead neckwear. White moutonne jackets suit young girls with Oriental touches. White toile sanglier fabrics enter evening wear. new kid gloves feature deep garnet, navy, and olive tones.
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Ehricka
Singapore
Lyons
LinER to a Rock From Ages Past and Prophetic Questioning
A weathered poem ponders the fate of civilizations and rock as mute witness to time. It contrasts ancient empires and modern nations with a childlike reverence for nature and a divine judgment that outlasts human grandeur. The speaker contemplates judgment, memory, and the permanence of stone.
Two Inventions Caved at Washington Patent Office
Nevada residents are credited in the Virginia Chronicle with two inventions receiving caveat at the Patent Office in Washington. A Barber's Muzzier covers the mouth to stop talking during shaving, iron padded, back-head clamps, priced at 2.50 with a lever option at 3, cheek plates of chilled steel. The Boxnet Grapple is a grappling hook with rope to lift obstructing hats, used to pull the rope and disfigure, deterring blockages at theaters.
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Nevada
Virginia
Washington
Doctor’s pun tops reading moment with Shakespeare quip
A physician notes a lady reading Twelfth Night and jokes about patience on a monument. She replies that doctors’ patients are under them, not on monuments, delivering a wry Shakespearean exchange.
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Shakspeare
Patience
Der Candidate and Oddities in a Rural Paper
A collage of humorous items and political satire including dialect sketches, quips about stockings, an umbrella swallow, a Chicago preacher remark on bread and tobacco costs, a failed engagement story, and Miss Milner from Ferris Texas who chloroformed her father's dog to elope with a forbidden suitor.
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Wisconsin
Chicago
Miss Milner
Ferris
Texas
Hense
Population of the Pacific Slope
The San Francisco Alta California estimates the civilized population of the American States and Territories on the Pacific slope at 1,266,000, excluding Montana, Wyoming, Colorado, and New Mexico. The article cites census figures for June 1870 and September 1879 with the same rounded estimates.
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San Francisco
Alta California
Pacific
Montana
Wyoming
Colorado
New Mexico
United States
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Bonnivard
Ghillon
Constitution
Siberia
Ceylon
Maine
Helen of Maine
Henry W. Longfellow
Harper'a Magazine
Twain
Sherman
Dis
Citien
Mabel's Tower
Cheops Pyramid
Greece
Rome
Jender
Japhet
Sonny
Thesisule
John
Jane
Floy
Mr. John
Dheer
Lapland
der Gandidate
Shinart
Pacific Slope
UTD
California
TSG
Seeesesee
Arizona
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